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Hyped-up activities that are actually shite.

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DarkestBerty · 25/08/2025 14:01

Loads of my friends do yoga. It's really relaxing, they say. It's really mindful, they say. It's a good workout without realising you're working out, they say. It's a really nice community of people, they say.

So on Saturday morning I tried it.

It was bloody awful. Everything about it was bloody terrible. It wasn't remotely relaxing or mindful. I wasn't a very good workout and the people were cult-loke lunatics.

And I've felt a bit lightheaded, dizzy, and just not quite myself ever since.

Tell me about activities that everyone seems to have a wide-on for, but which you hated.

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bumbaloo · 14/09/2025 18:39

Bit concerning that you feel out of sorts and dizzy ever since. That really really isn’t sounding great. If it continues you should see your gp

Scones. Dried up and stale tasting even straight out of the oven. Needs jam and cream to be remotely palatable.

Browniesforbreakfast · 14/09/2025 18:48

Beachtastic · 14/09/2025 18:29

I do remember a Thai "massage" at a hotel in Bangkok that had me fearing for the integrity of my spinal cord!

Same! The feeling of relief at the end was just because they stopped.

Phatgurslyms · 15/09/2025 19:40

Browniesforbreakfast · 11/09/2025 17:22

That sounds like a lot of dogma to me

Too much Down dog(ma)

XelaM · 15/09/2025 20:46

Browniesforbreakfast · 14/09/2025 18:48

Same! The feeling of relief at the end was just because they stopped.

All massages I have ever had have been pure torture! I will never understand how anyone could like massages

ToadRage · 18/09/2025 15:00

XelaM · 15/09/2025 20:46

All massages I have ever had have been pure torture! I will never understand how anyone could like massages

Ooh, I love massage although they are very rare and my shoulders were extremely painful after the last one I had.

UK2HK · 18/09/2025 15:47

I've met people who have been rendered immovable from the neck down due to having cheap unregulated massages. Their spinal cord was severed.

It is always in the back of my mind.
Lots of people where Ilive great over the HK border to Shenzhen for day spas.

KimberleyClark · 18/09/2025 16:10

Beach holidays. Sitting on a beach/going in the sea with hundreds, if not thousands, of other people. It’s not that Idon’t like beaches, Ijust prefer pristine unspoiled ones.

Camping, what everyone else has said.

Karaoke evenings.

LittleBitofBread · 18/09/2025 16:24

KimberleyClark · 18/09/2025 16:10

Beach holidays. Sitting on a beach/going in the sea with hundreds, if not thousands, of other people. It’s not that Idon’t like beaches, Ijust prefer pristine unspoiled ones.

Camping, what everyone else has said.

Karaoke evenings.

It's possible to go on holiday to a pristine unspoiled beach though Confused

MyElatedUmberFinch · 18/09/2025 16:41

LittleBitofBread · 18/09/2025 16:24

It's possible to go on holiday to a pristine unspoiled beach though Confused

I did when I went to Bikini Beach in Cape Town, there was literally no one there apart from my family, it was a perfect beach experience.

LittleBitofBread · 18/09/2025 16:43

MyElatedUmberFinch · 18/09/2025 16:41

I did when I went to Bikini Beach in Cape Town, there was literally no one there apart from my family, it was a perfect beach experience.

Yes, my point exactly. So it's not 'beach holidays' this poster doesn't like, it's busy ones.

KimberleyClark · 18/09/2025 16:45

LittleBitofBread · 18/09/2025 16:43

Yes, my point exactly. So it's not 'beach holidays' this poster doesn't like, it's busy ones.

Fair enough. There are some fabulous beaches in Cape Town!

LittleBitofBread · 18/09/2025 16:49

KimberleyClark · 18/09/2025 16:45

Fair enough. There are some fabulous beaches in Cape Town!

Never been but I think I ought to…

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